1st Edition

Psychoanalytic Ideas and Shakespeare

Edited By Maggie Mills, Inge Wise Copyright 2006
154 Pages
by Routledge

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Psychoanalysis is concerned with the vicissitudes of life: loss, grief, mourning, guilt and also with reparation and creativity, with death and rebirth, as is the work of Shakespeare. These papers link the Bard's universe to psychoanalytic thought and practice and show us how much both worlds have in common. In today's world we are moved by Shakespeare's plays whose themes are brought to life... Read more
Introduction -- Psychoanalysis and theatre -- Grief, loss, and creativity: whither the Phoenix? -- The Caledonian tragedy -- Some considerations of shame, guilt, and forgiveness derived principally from King Lear -- The other side of the wall. A psychoanalytic study of creativity in later life -- Prospero's book

Biography

Mills, Maggie